Presenters:

Peter Lindstrom and Brenda Perea

INTRODUCTIONS

Peter Lindstrom

Instructional Designer

CHAMP Grant

Colorado Community College System

peter.lindstrom@cccs.edu

Brenda Perea

Instructional Design Project Manager

TAACCCT Grants

Colorado Community College System

brenda.perea@cccs.edu

SESSION OUTCOMES

Define open educational resources and locate OER resources and courses related to your discipline

Understand how to curate OER for individual faculty, department, or institution

Understand how to choose existing repositories for hosting your institution’s OER

QUESTIONS ABOUT OER

What is it?

Won’t that make

my job

obsolete?

Can I trust that

it’s accurate?

"question questions talk balloons" by geralt,

Pixabay is in the Public Domain, CC0

REASONS FOR USING OER

Learning Effectiveness Better quality or more recent material--Peered

reviewed

Scale – Cost Free resources for students and instructors

Access Faculty and students have a wider variety of learning

materials to choose from

Faculty success Avoids “reinventing the wheel” for time efficiency

CHAMP GRANT AND OER

Dept. of Labor TAACCCT Grant

Requirements:

80% instructor-created material

Creative Commons CC-BY License

Published to skillscommons.org

CHAMP has 187 Courses

OER REPOSITORIES

Repositories are websites that host

server space for OER content

Curated in varying degrees

Contributions come from educators,

industry, government …

"Flat World Knowledge: Open College Textbooks" by Libby Levi,

opensource.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0

BUILDING WITH

OER

Course shared by four institutions

Developed as Master Course

EGT205 – Geometric

Dimension & Tolerance

"Engineering drawings with Machinery's Handbook" by Benrobuck,

Wikipedia is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

COURSE MAP

www.cccs.edu/champ

EXAMPLE MODULE

THE SEARCH … http://www.merlot.org/merlot/ind

ex.htm

http://cnx.org/

http://www.wisc-online.com

http://www.meteconline.org

https://archive.org/details/movies

http://www.ted.com

http://cc.aljazeera.net

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

http://oyc.yale.edu/

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

http://openstaxcollege.org/

http://www.wisc-online.com

http://www.meteconline.org

http://phet.colorado.edu/

http://oli.cmu.edu/

http://open4us.org/find-oer/org

http://www.ocwsearch.com/

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

http://www.saylor.org

http://www.khanacademy.org/

http://open4us.org/wp-

content/uploads/2012/10/Boundl

ess.png

www.creativecommons.org

OER SITES USED

www.coetc.weebly.com

www.skillscommons.org

www.cteonline.org

www.saylor.org

TEAMWORK

WHEN TO LET GO

Suitable content does not exist

“Going down the rabbit hole”

Type of content being sought is too

narrowly define

Videos

Complete lesson plans

PRODUCING OER

Is it allowed in your institution?

Does faculty or college “own” intellectual

property?

PRODUCING OER

Develop a Detailed Plan

Where will it be hosted?

Where will people find the OER index?

Will multimedia be hosted on an

institution channel or institutional account

at 3rd party provider

Will faculty be allocated time for

producing content?

Will a position be created to curate OER?

CHAMP GRANT OER

OER was required by grant

Leverage experience gained from COETC Grant

Materials at www.skillscommons.org

Index of materials at www.cccs.edu/champ

Recommended institutional accounts for multimedia

Faculty paid to develop OER for their courses

Index of OER managed by grant position Skillscommons.org curates OER materials

BENEFITS TO USE OER

OER encouraged faculty collaboration

across departments and institutions

OER helped standardize approach to

common competencies across the state.

OER increased the speed of development

when moving courses across consortium

members.

SAFETY FOR WELDERS

CHAMP affected course scheduled for

redesign

1-credit course offered at all colleges

Three competencies in most welding

courses

Follow shop safety practices

Maintain a clean, safe work area

Perform safety inspections on ____

equipment

QUESTIONS?

LICENSE & ATTRIBUTION

This workforce solution was funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. The solution was created by the grantee and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department of Labor makes no guarantees, warranties, or assurances of any kind, express or implied,

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Mining for OER: Creating Gold from Pyrite by Peter Lindstrom and

Brenda Perea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution

4.0 International License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at

www.cccs.edu/champ.